South Sudan

EASTERN JIKANY NUER COUNCIL OF AUSTRALIA, COMMUNITY OF CANADA AND DEVELOPMENT OF UNITED STATES STRONGLY CONDEMN THE KILLING OF CIVILIANS IN GREATER ADAR STATE COORDINATED BY A FAKE GOVERNORS BOL RUACH ROM AND GATKUOTH KHOR AT DUTJIOK ON 02/05/2017; PAKUR ON 09/05/2017; GOBACH, NAK-MANYANG, AND LANYDEY ON 15 /05/2017; PANOMDAJOP ON 29/05/2017; AND MACHAR /…

Juba, June 6, 2017 (SSNA) — An official with the United States’ Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is currently assisting South Sudanese government to prosecute soldiers who were accused of killing, raping, and torturing humanitarian aid workers in July 2016, The Reuters News Agency has reported. The attack, which occurred on July 11 at the…

Juba, June 6, 2017 (SSNA) — A South Sudanese international model who lives in the United States has been praised for promoting her natural skin color at modeling shows, media reports have shown. Nyakim Gatwech, a 24-year-old who currently resides in the US state of Minnesota has been noticed as a new kind of model…

Juba/Washington, DC, June 6, 2017 (SSNA) — The United Nations has warned that South Sudan’s hunger crisis is worsening and blames South Sudanese warring factions of failing to find a peaceful resolution to the ongoing civil war. United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization director, José Graziano da Silva, said, “Donors are exhausted to fund a…

Pagak/Kampala, June 3, 2017 (SSNA) — In what has been described as a “controversial move,” the South Sudanese main rebel movement (SPLM/A-IO) under the leadership of Dr. Riek Machar has criticized some European countries, saying, “Some first world nations with third world mentality have been supplying Juba’s genocidal regime with deadly weapons.” The armed opposition…

Juba, June 3, 2017 (SSNA) — South Sudan’s civil war has been ranked fourth on the list of the world’s ten most neglected displacement crises, a 2017 report released by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) has shown. The report, seen by the South Sudan News Agency, ranks the top ten countries based on “insufficient economic…

The Sentry’s new investigative report spotlights documents indicating top army general has amassed a fortune through questionable deals in energy, construction and explosives; U.N. says same general is partly behind violence in Unity state that led to famine Washington, DC, May 31, 2017 (SSNA) — A new investigative report released today by The Sentry, “Making a Fortune While…

Juba, May 31, 2017 (SSNA) — Pope Francis’s scheduled visit to South Sudan has been canceled, the Vatican has said. The announcement comes after a security group declared the war-ravaged young nation as “too dangerous.” “A possible trip has been under study, but it will not take place this year,” Vatican spokesman Greg Burke said….

Council Bluffs, Iowa, May 27, 2017 (SSNA) — The Nuer Community Development Services in the United States (NCDS-USA) under the leadership of Chairwoman Nyanguok Gatloa has begun its annual convention on Saturday in the U.S state of Iowa after months of coordinated planning. Thousands of community members from the United States and around the world…

Juba/New York, May 24, 2017 (SSNA) — The United States and the United Kingdom said South Sudan’s President recent declaration of the unilateral ceasefire is not new, saying Kiir is simply repeating the same promises he previously announced. United States’ deputy Ambassador to the United Nations, Michele Sison, blasted Kiir’s announcement, saying South Sudanese President…

Kampala, May 21, 2017 (SSNA) — A former Ugandan intelligence officer James Moises has accused Western countries of complicity in the going South Sudan’s civil war, claiming that Western nations have allowed South Sudan’s neighbor, Uganda, to manage South Sudan’s peace process. Moises, who is widely credited for exposing Uganda’s involvement in South Sudan’s civil…

Juba, May 21, 2017 (SSNA) — The World Food Program warned in its latest situational update that 5.5 million South Sudanese are facing a severe food shortage, citing lack of enough resources for May to July this year. The latest update indicated that the number of South Sudanese who currently receive assistance from the WFP…

Geneva/Juba, May 19, 2017 (SSNA) — The United Nations has accused South Sudanese government troops of carrying out ethnic killings in Yei, saying at least 114 civilians were killed by Juba-backed forced. The Geneva-based office of the United Nations human rights said in a report on Friday that attacks that resulted in the death of…

Pagak/Juba, May 13, 2017 (SSNA) — A senior military official of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army-In Opposition (SPLA-IO) has harshly criticized the recently sacked South Sudan national army (SPLA) chief of General Staff Paul Malong Awan, saying Awan departure from the helm of the national army will not change anything in the ongoing civil war….

Juba, May 9, 2017 (SSNA) — South Sudanese national army (SPLA) Chief of General Staff Paul Malong Awan has been fired and replaced with James Ajongo Awut, according to a decree broadcasted live on the state-controlled South Sudan Broadcasting Corporation Television (SSBCTV). Tension is very high here in Juba as soldiers loyal to President Kiir…

Juba, May 7, 2017 (SSNA) — The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) has deployed peacekeepers to Upper Nile’s Aburoc to help enable the delivery of humanitarian aid to tens of thousands of people who fled their homes due to ongoing civil war, UN Mission in South Sudan said today. UNMISS’s chief, David Shearer,…